Android Resources - Arbitrary XML

Android allows arbitrary XML files as resources.

XML files that need to be read in this fashion are stored under the /res/xml subdirectory.

<rootelem1>
<subelem1>
Hello World from an xml sub element
</subelem1>
</rootelem1>

Resources res = activity.getResources();
XmlResourceParser xpp = res.getXml(R.xml.test);

private String getEventsFromAnXMLFile(Activity activity)
throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
 StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
 Resources res = activity.getResources();
 XmlResourceParser xpp = res.getXml(R.xml.test);
 xpp.next();
 int eventType = xpp.getEventType();
 while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
  if(eventType == XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT) {
   sb.append("******Start document");
  }
  else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
   sb.append("\nStart tag "+xpp.getName());
  }
  else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.END_TAG) {
   sb.append("\nEnd tag "+xpp.getName());
  }
  else if(eventType == XmlPullParser.TEXT) {
   sb.append("\nText "+xpp.getText());
  }
  eventType = xpp.next();
 }//eof-while
 sb.append("\n******End document");
 return sb.toString();
}//eof-function